Americans Used To Believe They Could Get Things Done. What The Hell Happened?
10 min readApr 2, 2018
Three weeks after I was born Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to ever walk on the surface of another world. While I obviously have no memory of these events, I can at least say I was alive when it happened.
That this accomplishment was as much a product of the Cold War competition between the Soviet Union and…